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" I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. "

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" My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country. "

" I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions. "

" I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though. "

" I'm drawn to bad romances. "

" If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people. "

" I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone. "

" We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another. "

" I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family. "

" I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up. "

" Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life. "

" Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. "

" I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. "

" That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you. "

" I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another. "

" I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people. "

" At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano. "

" I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music. "

" I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. "

" I try to not focus on what people expect from me. "

" I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager. "

" In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it. "

" Pop music will never be low brow. "

" When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things. "

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" 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud. "

" When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be. "

" No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off. "

" I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff. "